Toni Morrison, Paradise Quotes

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?''I'm looking now.